Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery/Postpartum

Job Description

Job DescriptionRegistered Nurse - Labor and Delivery/Postpartum

Start Date: 10-12-2026

End Date: 01-11-2027

Contract Type: Travel Contract

Hours per Week: 36

Candidate Pay Rate: $82 - $84.00 per hour

About United Health Care Staffing

At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.

Education

• Charting System: Cerner
• Unit Notes: - Unit: L&D/PP
• # L&D Beds: 7 beds
• # triage bed: 4 triage beds, 2 overflow beds
• # Postpartum beds: 27 beds with a 5 bed nursery
• # births per day, per year: 3 births per day, 1545 per year
• Certs: ACLS, BLS, NRP, Fetal monitoring (AWOHNN - intermediate or advanced), Stable is preferred
• Ratios: They follow AWOHNN guidelines
• FHM System: Fetal Link - this interacts with Cerner
• EMR: Cerner
• Charge Nurse: yes - shift manager or charge nurse for L&D and PP units, they each have resource nurse for breaks
• Nurse Aides/OB tech: OB techs - will scrub in for c-sections, they will also help with deliveries, stock supplies in unit, and help with intake on - patients
• Weekend Requirement: 4 weekend shifts in 4 week schedule
• Call Requirement : Optional, it is preferred if traveler is willing to take call, please inquire about this in the interview
• Holidays: will work them in with perm staff, typically one major and one minor
• Scrub Color: navy
• Tele: phillips
• Vents: No
• OB/Neonataologist in house: available and on call if needed 24/7 with a 30 min response time
• IV Team: No
• RT 24/7: Yes
• Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
• Shifts: 12 hr shifts -7am-7:30pm, 7pm-7:30am
• C-section experience required: nurses are not required to have experience scrubbing c-sections but they have to be able to circulate (they have 2 -c-section suites with recovery)
• Floating: L&D will float to postpartum, postpartum will float to L&D, L&D nurses HAVE to have PP experience, PP nurses do not necessarily have to have L&D, they will help out in NICU or in L&D with tasks in scope, L&D nurses will also have to float to NICU to take care of grower/feeders
• Floor specific orientation: 3 shifts
• Common diagnosis / Types of patients: high risk deliveries, any gestational age, EMT drop offs, substance abuse - withdrawal, a lot of Spanish speaking, no prenatal care as well, if they are sick enough they will transfer out to UCLA or another facility
• Additional Notes: Candidates must have 2-3 years of experience, at least one prior travel conract is preferred
• Years of Experience: 3
• Shift Notes: 7p-7a, EOW first to float
• Specialty: L&D/PP
• Start Date: 2026-10-12
• End Date: 2027-01-11
• Created Date: 2026-09-18
• Required Hours/Week: 36
• Start Time: 07:00
• End Time: 19:30
• Positions: 2
• Short Description: RN (Registered Nurse)
• Contract Type:

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Ready to start your next adventure as a Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery/Postpartum? Let's get you moving forward!

Send your resume to jobs@uhcstaffing.com or call us at 408-441-9200 today.